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I have now officially graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science!

The CS graduation was entertaining and not terribly long. Good speeches and lots of famous names; my name was read by David Patterson, who created RISC. Pretty cool I guess.

I’ll be around Berkeley for the next few years, hopefully working for YVOD and other “secret side projects,” and I’ll probably be at every football game taking pictures of the band… so no one’s going to miss me, I’m not going anywhere

It sure is great to be done. I think I’ll do something I haven’t done in months… play video games.

I have my last final of my undergraduate career today! It should be pretty easy, just a simple AI class. I need 50.1% on the final to pass the class

Then on Sunday I graduate… it hasn’t hit me yet.

Interesting fact: in the last four years, I’ve taken 348 pictures of the Campanile.

Go Bears.

This company is cooler than their web site makes them out to be. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

I parked my car accross the street last night because a friend was in our driveway, and this morning I go to move it back only to find a nice little ticket under the wiper. Street sweeping day. Oh, right. $36.

It wouldn’t bug me so much, but the time on the ticket is 9:39 AM, which is precisely one minute before I woke up—on the second snoose-button press. If only I had got up at 9:20 like I was supposed to…

Street sweeping. I bet that’s a good percentage of Berkeley’s parking revenue right there. Eh, support the city I guess…

It’s been a long time since I posted anything even remotely political, but Steven Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner was so well done that I have to keep on spreading the truthiness.

Salon said it best:

“It’s not just that Colbert’s jokes were hitting their mark. We already know that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that the generals hate Rumsfeld or that Fox News lists to the right. Those cracks are old and boring. What Colbert did was expose the whole official, patriotic, right-wing, press-bashing discourse as a sham, as more “truthiness” than truth.”

You have to imagine the scene—thousands of the most powerful people in the world, including President George W. Bush, all forced to watch this guy speaking from his gut with such an ironic and powerful tone, yet at the same time almost unfunny, almost painful to watch… all but two of his jokes were met with dead silence, and you get the sense that he meant them to be that way. It was a truly courageous speech with no attention whatsoever to what is correct, politically or otherwise, no care of being well-recieved or humorous, no hiding anything; needless to say, the room did not know how to handle the awkwardness of the truth.

Watch it if you want. It hurts, but it’s so funny—not always his jokes, but the whole situation.

And once you do, give thanks if you are so inclined.